biography
A biography is a nonfiction account of a person's life. This topic is part of Literature within Literature. This page currently draws on 10 supporting questions, with answers and bonus facts available below.
biography trivia questions
A biography tells the story of whose life?
Answer: Another person's
Bonus fact: A biography is a nonfiction account of a person's life.
How does an autobiography differ from a biography?
Answer: It is written by the person whose life it describes
Bonus fact: Auto means self.
What source would be considered primary evidence for a biographer?
Answer: A subject's personal letters
Bonus fact: Letters written by the subject provide direct evidence from the person's lifetime.
Who wrote Orlando: A Biography?
Answer: Virginia Woolf
Bonus fact: 1928 novel by Virginia Woolf.
What common nickname is used for a biographical film?
Answer: Biopic
Bonus fact: Biopic combines biography and picture.
What are the folded inner parts of a dust jacket called?
Answer: Flaps
Bonus fact: Flaps often contain summaries and author biographies.
An obituary reports the death and life of whom?
Answer: A person
Bonus fact: Obituaries summarize biography and significance.
In what year did Chilean poet Pablo Neruda receive the Nobel Prize in Literature?
Answer: 1971
Bonus fact: Neruda's Nobel biography notes that he was also a diplomat and political figure as well as a poet.
Who wrote the Victorian novel "North and South"?
Answer: Elizabeth Gaskell
Bonus fact: Gaskell also wrote "Cranford" and a biography of her friend Charlotte Brontë.
"Girl from the North Country" uses songs by which songwriter?
Answer: Bob Dylan
Bonus fact: The musical rearranges Dylan songs rather than presenting them as a conventional biography.